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思想としての東京: 近代文学史論ノート (講談社文芸文庫 いB 2)

Art Encouragement Prize for Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

思想としての東京: 近代文学史論ノート (講談社文芸文庫 いB 2)

Koichi Isoda

Tokyo as Thought is Koichi Isoda's critical study of Tokyo through modern literature. Using maps, literary works, and popular songs as clues, it examines how Tokyo changed from a local place into a national center and how that transformation left tensions in the Japanese imagination.

Tokyomodern literatureurban theoryliterary historymodernizationcriticism

Work Information

Tokyo is read not merely as a city, but as an idea reflecting the desires and illusions of Japan's modernization.

Tokyo as Thought, subtitled Notes on Modern Literary History, is one of Koichi Isoda's major works of criticism. It illuminates, from both literary and urban perspectives, the process by which Tokyo lost its local character and came to function as the national center. The book discusses longing, shame, exclusion, and assimilation around Tokyo in relation to the formation of modern Japanese literature.

Review Summaries

  • Readers value the way the book crosses urban theory and literary history. It is received as dense criticism that reads the psychology surrounding Tokyo and the structure of modernization through literary texts.

Book Information

Publisher
講談社
Published
1990-03-01
Pages
215 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784061960701
ISBN-10
4061960709
Price
968 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

明治100年、〈東京〉という地方性の崩壊過程を辿り、地図・文学作品・流行歌を通して、〈東京〉に絡む日本人の複雑な心理を抽出、対象化し、都市先住者の側の眼で、日本の近代化の“軋み”とその象徴〈東京〉の呪縛力を解明。名著『永井荷風』の前史として、近代日本文学史の根底を激しく揺さぶった画期的「東京論」。芸術選奨受賞。

Reviews

  • Good!!

  • 「東京」とは何だったのか

    東京の誕生とそのイメージの推移を、地図表現、標準語の成立と東京方言の分離、歌謡曲の歌詞、文学表現などに探る。そこには日本人にとっての中央とは何か、近代とは何かが貼り付いている。そして取り残された地方や前近代はいかに底流化し、噴出し、持続していったか。

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